Grizzly bears are starting to stir in Yellowstone National Park, where one of the bruins was spotted in a meadow in the west-central part of the park.

Fetching as she is, the reconstructed French fortress is not the draw on this blustery day as a fierce winter storm approaches Cape Breton. It’s a 40-minute interpretive walk that quietly beckons because it speaks to how coastal erosion is impacting the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, its rocky shoreline and one of its centuries-old mass grave.

Roads in Yellowstone National Park began closing to oversnow travel March 6. Spring plowing operations have begun and will continue as additional segments of roads close.

Trying to understand the National Park Service's visitor fees can be, well, baffling if not impossible.